Cladonychiidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Travunioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Opiliones Subordo: Laniatores Infraordo: "Insidiatores" Superfamilia: Travunioidea

Familia: Cladonychiidae
Genera: Briggsus – Erebomaster – Holoscotolemon – Isolachus – Peltonychia – Sinonychia – Speleonychia – Theromaster
† Proholoscotolemon

Name

Cladonychiidae Hadži, 1935: 69.
- Type genus: Cladonychium Hadži, 1935 [= Erebomaster Cope, 1872]
- Stem: Cladonychi-

Synonyms

Erebomastridae Briggs 1969: 37; junior subjective synonym of Cladonychiidae in Cokendolpher, 1985: 36.
Pentanychidae Briggs 1971: 169 (Familial nomen invalid, type genus Pentanychus Briggs 1971 preoccupied by Pentanychus Wainstein, 1960); (see below).
Briggsidae Özdikmen & Demir 2008: 175 (Nomen novum for Pentanychidae Briggs, 1971); junior subjective synonym of Cladonychiidae in Derkarabetian et al., 2008: 17.

References

Primary references

Hadži, J. 1935. Ein eigentumlicher neuer Höhlen-Opilionid aus Nord-Amerika, Cladonychium corii g.n. sp. n.. Biologia Generalis 11: 49–72. Reference page.

Additional references

Briggs, T.S. 1969. A new Holarctic family of laniatorid phalangids (Opiliones). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 45(1): 35–50. Reference page.
Briggs, T.S. 1971. Relict harvestmen from the Pacific Northwest (Opiliones). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47(3): 165–178. Reference page.
Cokendolpher, J.C. 1985. Erebomastridae; replaced by Cladonychiidae. Entomological News 96: 36. Reference page.
Cope, E.D. 1872. On the Wyandotte Cave and its fauna. The American Naturalist 6(7): 406–422. BHL. Reference page.
Derkarabetian, S., Starrett, J., Tsurusaki, N., Ubick, D., Castillo, S. & Hedin, M. 2018. A stable phylogenomic classification of Travunioidea (Arachnida, Opiliones, Laniatores) based on sequence capture of ultraconserved elements. ZooKeys 760: 1–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.760.24937. Reference page.
Özdikmen, H. & Demir, H. 2008. New family and genus names, Briggsidae nom. nov. and Briggsus nom. nov., for the harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores). Munis Entomology & Zoology 3(1): 174–176. Reference page.
Kury, A.B., Mendes, A.C., Cardoso, L., Kury, M.S., Granado, A. d. A., Giribet, G., Cruz-López, J.A., Longhorn, S.J., Medrano, M. & de Oliveira, A.B.R. 2023. World Catalogue of Opiliones (WCO-Lite version 2.5.1 - June 2023. Digital resource at wcolite.com). In: O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D.R. Hernández Robles, C.A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, L. Vandepitte, D. Hobern, P. Schalk, R.E. DeWalt, M. Keping, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, R. Adlard, E.M. Adriaenssens, et al. Catalogue of Life Checklist (Version 2023-07-13). DOI: 10.48580/dfsy-4pt Reference page. [accessed on February 13, 2024]

Links

BHL bibliography
Cladonychiidae – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Cladonychiidae.
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